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Motorola Posts List of Phones Not Receiving Jelly Bean, Confirms Which Phones Will Get the Update

When Motorola first unveiled the new RAZR family at the beginning of September, they told us that they wouldn’t be able to update all of their previously released devices to Jelly Bean (Android 4.1). Since they had too large of a portfolio and would need to leave some out of the fun, they mentioned that owners of these devices would be able to buy a new Motorola phone and then trade in their old phone for $100. They posted the list of devices, this afternoon, which we have below.

So if the list of phones on the left is of those not receiving Jelly Bean, that means that the DROID Bionic and DROID 4 somehow made the list of phones in line to get it. That’s got to feel good, right? We should also point out that sources of ours said that Motorola is targeting Q1 for Android 4.1 updates for the original RAZR and RAZR MAXX, Bionic, and D4. The RAZR HD and RAZR MAXX HD should see 4.1 before the end of the year.

Update: Motorola has also made changes to their update schedule:

There you have it, folks, All of the new RAZRs will see Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) before the end of 2013. The Atrix HD, Photon Q, Electrify 2, DROID RAZR, RAZR MAXX, DROID 4, and Bionic will all receive it at some point in the future.

I was already burned on the Atrix 4G and Droid 3 and today I learned that Motorola fooled me once again with the Atrix 2. And the rebate program is a joke! I have three eligable phones yet the offer is only valid in USA.

bigachx

Did you mean to say in that last paragraph, all the new Razrs. Will get jelly bean before the end of 2012 NOT 2013?

I know this is phones but what about the F’N LTE XOOM? It’s vanilla, so why is Verizon di*kin’ around? From this point forward, if it doesn’t say “Nexus”, I’m out.

VicMatson

Have they cut my XOOM out yet, thats what I want to know. If it doesn’t get it soon Moto is on my no buy list!

Derrick

Well considering I am using my bionic for the time being (my S3 has antenna issues and I sent it off to get fixed) I am happy that I just activated it and now I have ICS. I hated this phone but now after using it with ics its so much better. Glad Motorola didn’t forget about us.

mgamerz

We all know they won’t actually upgrade all the devices they say they will. Have they ever? Why would anyone buy a motofail device anymore.

http://www.facebook.com/john.eames.900 John Eames

For fun they should have just thrown out a JB upgrade for the OG Droid. That would have made headlines

https://www.facebook.com/aaron.williams.125 Champion1229

My Droid Razr may JUST see JB after all!

I can’t wait to have Google Now! It will shut all the iPhone users up about Siri!

balthuszar

Looks like it says that hd owners will get jb by the end of 2012, unless I interpret ‘before 2013′ wrongly

ritesh golani

why should i purchase droid razr hd on vzw, if i have atrix 2 on AT&T???

mgamerz

You should just buy a nexus instead, you’ll be so much ahppidr.

flosserelli

Or a SGS3 or Galaxy Note 2.

mgamerz

Happier*

http://www.facebook.com/justin.pumphrey.14 Justin Pumphrey

+ respect for moto upgrading all those phone to jelly bean.

Mike

Hip hip, hooray!

-Bionic owner

Aaron

So Motorola will give me $100 to “upgrade” from my Electrify to an Electrify 2. Great except I am only half way through my contract, and the E2 doesn’t have 4G and only has a slightly better processor with half the storage. #motofail

twitter eats dingleberries

This isnt twitter tool.

Aaron

#twittereatsdingleberriesfail

ranlil

This is sweet! I’m not gonna take the ICS OTA…. I’ll wait for JB

http://www.DavidPat.com David Pat

All the old phone sell for more than $100 on eBay. Don’t do it! Rip off!

Detonation

All of those phones could easily be sold for more than $100 on ebay, swappa, etc. I guess if you’re lazy you can trade up, but otherwise it’s not that great of a deal.

Diablo81588

At least they’re offering. They could say tough titty, since none of those phones were promised jelly bean to begin with.

Knlegend1

…..I don’t even care because I feel like I’m going to go through the same crap when it(Razr) updated to 4.0.3. Also I do own a Droid 3 I haven’t upgraded since, am I considered for the $100 even though my main phone is the Razr?

balthuszar

When did the razr get 4.0.3? Mine got 4.0.4

Knlegend1

My mistake

http://www.facebook.com/dillan.shives Dillan Shives

Though this seems to be good, I’m sure Motorola will wait until December of 2013 to roll out the updates, I will have gone through two more phones by then.

Travis H

its called a case

Jim McClain

so i guess my LG DARE must be getting it too? lol

http://twitter.com/starnovsky Stan Tarnovsky

And your typewriter too

http://twitter.com/stevenberger Steven Berger

I love when I see these lists. I have a D3 and running JB with SS3 perfectly fine

Naga Appani

Before the end of 2013???? WTF??? Is it 2012 or 2013??

circuspeanut

AFAIK, it’s still 2012, and “before 2013″ would mean Jelly Bean will be coming to the latest RAZRs on or before the end of THIS year.

http://twitter.com/NicPaolini Nic Paolini

“Before the end of 2013″ not “before 2013″

circuspeanut

I was quoting the table, not the paragraph below it contradicting the paragraph above the table which states: “The RAZR HD and RAZR MAXX HD should see 4.1 before the end of the year.”

well, this is incredibly awesome. bought the razr m and upgraded from my droid 3 on 9/13. can’t return/exchange. basically at this point, dont qualify for the $100 even tho i upgraded to and from qualifying devices. just too early.

Guest

hey uh Bionic (the user) looks like MY source was right… and yours was WRONG!!

Diablo81588

Burn.

Bionic

Yeah LOL

Lambo_21

im thankful his is right lol

Ash Hanna

Overall….x2 owners get screwed AGAIN
screw you moto…
Seriously

NSBJJ

Let me translate: The new RAZRs will start the roll out of Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) on December 31st, 2012

http://www.facebook.com/carthell43 Quintin Carthell

wen will be uploaded to our phones

Story_Ninja22

Droid 4 FTW!

Raven

Makes me a little happier that I finally quit waiting for the Droid 5 and bought a Droid 4 cheap from swappa.

VERY happy with Motorola right now. I’m a Droid Razr Maxx owner, and I’m glad they’re getting Jellybean on it. I’ve got to play around with 4.1, and it is a noticeably different than 4.0. Unfortunately though, I’ll be going Nexus when my contract expires next October. Who knows, maybe Motorola will be making a Nexus next year, and if it’s good enough, maybe I’ll go with them. They are under Google now.

http://twitter.com/Wil_Payne Wil Payne

My sister has a Droid 4 and if she wasn’t going to get JB, she would have been pissed. The Bionic… if that actually gets an update I might pass out.

Izzy Rom

I’ll take a sit while I wait, don’t want my feet to hurt too much…

s23

What I tell Ya’ll! Moto is Bad but it ain’t evil! Who is updating an old ASS phone to JB? MOTO is! Bionic users (me) got a ‘RAW DEAL’ but most importantly Moto Acknowledged that and sided with US! IDC if my ICS was delayed a few weeks. Bionic is Relevant BITCHEZZZ!

P.S. I write in ALL CAPS because i superduper excited i’m getting JB

P.S.S. To anyone that says the software update will ‘Only to get delayed till Q4′ STFU!!!!

Butters619

P.S. It would be P.P.S. not P.S.S.

paul_cus

Nice to see the OG RAZR is on tap for the update.

Michael Singer

I dont think you’re allowed to call it the “OG RAZR” unless you’re talking about that old flat flip phone! Lol

http://twitter.com/armus75 Armus

Moto might be ready but vzw will delay it for months until they have enough spyware and bloat

Alexander Garcia

Wow. This is basically a promise from Moto that the Droid Bionic, the RAZR, and the RAZR Maxx are all gettin’ JB! =D

Silver Veloz

Woo Hoo! for Bionic.

Bionic

I loved my Bionic except for the locked bootloader and lack of updates to latest Android. It took them a year to release ICS. So just 3-5 months for Jelly Bean??? This is why I bought the GNexus.

balthuszar

In their defense, the difference between ics and jb is much much smaller than the difference between gb and ics… So it would stand that the upgrade time would be less

TowelieMeBanana

Partial agree. The snappiness on JB is incredibly noticeable. I doubt I’ll ever own a non-nexus device from here on out. Love my G Nexus.

redstormpopcorn

Overall, a good day for Bionic owners.

http://www.droid-life.com Kellex B

Definitely.

Diablo81588

Hell yeah!

Rob

My bionic is already getting degradation of the charging port. Seems like this will be too little too late. Besides, remember when they said we were getting ics originally? How long have we waited. Bionic owners got a big shaft from start to finish of the support life of the phone. Moto would have to ship me a new phone to my front door to make me change my mind for my next purchase brand.

gammaecho

Very awesome for Bionic. I don’t think this will be the drawn out scenario like ICS was because ICS to JB is a far less jump than GB to ICS as far as the framework of the OS. Plus you have a ton of Bionic owners lighting a fire under Punit Soni’s ass to keep them on their toes.

That was Verizons fault as Motorola tried serveral times serveral months ahead of the official ota

motta2003

Yeah, you’ll get JB by 2014 at the rate Moto is working…which should be the same time I get ICS (officially) on my TB. lol

Trueblue711

And then when 2014 comes around, they’ll notify everyone that the update was cancelled.

TheUI

As a Photon owner, I am … well, I’m jelly. Or I’m not. Wait, what?

Anyway, congrats on not being left far, far behind.

michael arazan

Sprint offered my friend with a Photon a deal $25 one time deal to buy a new ICS feature phone and an extension on his 2 year contract for that phone. He turned it down. But $25 for a brand new device is a Good Deal as long as its an ICS phone.

Sobr0801

Glad I sold my wifes Droid 3 and bought a Bionic for her. She will love this news.

http://profile.yahoo.com/NKX73VKFRLAH6O3A2ZFPLJ5NR4 Kim

@google-ec9ad8a265e90889b5e867c1622a9330:disqus hey uh Bionic (the user) looks like MY source was right… and yours was WRONG!!If you doubt that some extra income can be made working over the net then maybe this can convince you… Read carefully (go on HOME tab)…bit.ly/QfEfqJ

PowerofPicture

And a bad day for everyone else. Focusing energy on 1 phone from 2011 and dropping support for 4 is beyond screwed up.

Akashshr

Hm, Actually seems okay to me! Motorola is transitioning and these are the First good steps!

MicroNix

Its not over until the fat lady sings. And the fat lady at Moto has had laryngitis laterly.

Droidzilla

They imported a fresh fatty from Google.

NorCalGuy

Has the bionic even received ICS yet? I know the support docs r live but what about the actual update

http://profiles.google.com/mindshatteringcreations Keith Carlson

The soak test for the ICS update to the Bionic is going on now.

Diablo81588

Soak went out today.

Charlie in da Bronx

I got my ICS today and wasn’t part of the soak. Bit of a letdown. Not running way smooth.

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